Improvement in cutlery



J. J. C. SMITH. Cutlery.

No. 219,416. Patented Sept. 9,1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT TToE JOHN J. CHARLES SMITH, OF COLLEGE POINT, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO COLLEGE POINT RUBBER COMPANY, (LIMITED,) OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUTLERY.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 219,416, dated September 9, 1879; application led February 12, 1879.'

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, J oHN J osEPH CHARLES SMITH, of College Point, in the county of Queens and State of New York, (formerly of Somerville, Massachusetts,) have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Gutlery, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in molding the han dle of a table knife or fork, or other article ofv cutlery, in plastic material, with a metallic screw-nut within it embedded in the substance of the plastic handle in the act of molding the latter and receiving1 the tang of the blade, which tan g, bein gproperly threaded, is screwed into the nut, and there fixed by a transverse p1n. i

In order that my invention may be fully understood, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a longitudinal section ot' the handle, illustrating the application ot' the invention to the manufacture of table-knives. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2 2, Fig. l.

H represents the plastic material of the han dle; N, the metallic screw -nut embedded therein in the process of molding the handle B, the blade of the knife; T, its threaded tang, and P the transverse pin by which the tang is prevented from turning within the nut N and handle H after it has been screwed home.

The preferred mode of molding the plastic handle is made the subject of a separate application for Letters Patent.

Having thus described my invention, the following is what Iclaim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. The combination of a handle madein one piece of plastic material and a nut embedded within said handle in the process of molding the latter, as set forth. Y

2. Thecombination of the handle H, of plastic material, the nut N, embedded therein in the process of molding the handle, the screw-tang T, and the pin P, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

J. J. o. SMITH.

Witnesses GHAs. H. G. METZGER, FERDINAND MARTENS. 

